The End of Proportional Representation
Should Illinois abandon its unique system of electing its State House of Representatives, which has served well for 110 years? That was one of the many issues decided…
Author: Phyllis Schlafly
Does Reagan Know Who Elected Him? — December 1980
NEW STYLE SPOILS SYSTEM
It is reassuring to note that the new style “spoils system” – the use of the vast powers of incumbency to assure reelection – could not reelect Jimmy…
New Style Spoils System
It is reassuring to note that the new style “spoils system” — the use of the vast powers of incumbency to assure reelection — could not reelect Jimmy…
Suing the Soviets
A remarkable courtroom victory in Canada after a 13-year legal battle waged by Wallace Edwards has opened a new door to the filing of lawsuits against the Soviet…
The Drafting Women Lawsuit
The most important case now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court is the case that poses this question: Although the United States has fought nine wars and never…
Taiwan’s Success Story
Pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps is something that not many individuals or nations can do. It takes just too much hard work, stamina, and determination. Taiwan…
Mixing Religion and Politics
Just as fashions in clothes and in foods change with the times, so do styles and subjects of editorials. Today, it is high fashion to editorialize against the…
Common Sense About Survival
Can Americans survive as a free people in the nuclear age? “This question is too important to leave to the politicians,” according to Laurence W. Beilenson, a prominent…
The Sandinistas’ Takeover of Nicaragua
The turnover of Nicaragua to the Sandinistas was one of the foreign policy “achievements” of the Carter Administration. It’s pretty clear now that this was an achievement for…